Where Man Returns portrays the relationship between man and nature and tries to provide a meditative and close insight into a life very close to the elements. We experience a man that has chosen to live his life differently. A life in solitude, in this unfriendly ice cold environment, at the tip of Norway, on the border to Russia. As winter becomes summer, and then winter again. We learn his many techniques of harvesting what nature here can provide, and we can sense how both his physical and mental state changes according to the seasons. It is a rough and tiresome life. A delicate balance between the love, curiosity and care for nature, and inevitable brutality associated with living from it. Alone in this wilderness, the man finds his company in nature itself, the animals and his only friend; his dog.
Documentary film
Where Man Returns
(Hvor man vender tilbake)
A close encounter with a man's relationship to nature, somewhere far into the Arctic North.
Where Man Returns is a contemplative portrayal of man's relationship with nature. 75 years old Steinar has chosen to live his life close to nature. He lives in an isolated icy universe on Europe's northernmost tip, just one kilometre from the Norwegian border to Russia. In this remote wilderness, he finds freedom and tranquillity. He belongs here, but living alone with nature seems at times both lonely and overwhelming.
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